Facility / MEP Design

This project includes the design and construction of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) improvements at eight (8) stations located in the five (5) boroughs of New York City, NY. These improvements will achieve full vertical accessibility at the stations through the installation of a total of seventeen (17) elevators and other ADA-compliant upgrades.

Garg Consulting Services, Inc. is providing electrical and lighting design services at the following stations:
- 7th Avenue: an underground station in Brooklyn on the IND Sixth Avenue Line serving the ‘F’ & ‘G’ trains. (1) two-stop traction and (2) two-stop hydraulic elevators will be installed.
- Lorimer Street: an underground station in Brooklyn on the BMT Canarsie Line serving the ‘L’ train. (1) three-stop traction and (1) two-stop hydraulic elevators will be installed.
- Metropolitan Avenue: an underground station in Brooklyn on the IND Crosstown Line serving the ‘G’ train. (1) two-stop traction and (2) two-stop hydraulic elevators will be installed.
- Grand Street: an underground station in Brooklyn on the IND Canarsie Line serving the ‘L’ train. (2) two-stop traction elevators will be installed.
- Beach 67th Street: a viaduct station in Queens on the IND Far Rockway Line serving the ‘A’ train. (1) three-stop traction and (1) two-stop traction elevators will be installed.
- Dyckman Street: an elevated station listed on the National Register of Historic Places located in Manhattan on the IRT Broadway Line serving the ‘1’ train. (1) two-stop traction elevator will be installed.
- East 149th Street: an underground station in the Bronx on the IRT Pelham Line serving the ‘6’ train. (2) two-stop traction elevators will be installed.
- New Dorp (SIR): an embankment station located in Staten Island serving Station Island Railway (SIR) trains. (2) two-stop traction elevators will be installed.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

- Performing electrical field verifications of the existing site conditions and documenting the electrical system, including inventory, photographs, and measurements of the existing electrical rooms and equipment.
- Electrical Service Design Packages – existing and proposed one-line diagram, electrical load estimate, load letter, Proposed Electrical Distribution Room (EDR) plan, main distribution panel schedule, and related specifications.
- Preliminary Design Reports (30%), Intermediate Design (60%), Final Design (100%), and Release for Construction Design (RFC).
- Performing voltage drop calculations, feeder, raceway, transformer, and switchboard sizing calculations.
- Design of the Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) in the communication rooms for the complete replacement of the existing APC power plant systems with new Benning power plant systems at (3) stations and augmented design of the existing Benning power plant systems at (4) stations.
- Utility coordination with Con Edison and PSEG Long Island.
- Development of lighting design including the necessary details for relocation of the existing luminaries, or replacement, for maintaining light continuity and lighting level.